Scans This Week
We were scheduled to go to Rochester for a 6am PET scan this Thursday October 10th, but we got it switched to a CT scan, for a number of reasons, a CT is way shorter and easier on Mike, it is a lot less radiation than a PET, and a CT measures the exact size of the lung tumors better than a PET. We suggested a CT and Dr. Molina agreed that he would rather look at a CT instead to be able to determine how much the tumors have shrunk!!!🙏🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Mike will also have blood drawn Thursday am and then meet Dr. Mansfield who is heading up the clinical trial of Blu-667 to get the bloodwork and CT results. We are believing that the tumors have gotten significantly smaller or disappeared, and would love extra prayers in believing this with us!
Our daughter Julia and her kids Finley and Bear visited from South Dakota over the weekend while her hubby attended a conference and Jackson came home as well so all the activity helped keep the “SCANXIETY” down. We do trust in God and his perfect timing and try not to think too much about the scans but we are human and a little bit of anxiety about scans is just something that comes with the territory.
There are so many great quotes from Erwin McManus’s book The Last Arrow but this one seems so appropriate: “What is your proof of life? What are you doing right now that proves to the world, or at least those in your world, that you are fully alive? I have found that life can be incredibly elusive because it exists just on the other side of existence. Most of us are not choosing between life and death; we are choosing between existence and death. We actually never choose to live. We are so afraid of death and it’s relatives, such as failure and disappointment and injury, that we actually never choose to live. For all of us, death comes to soon. It comes along before we’ve taken our final breaths. It’s only when we realize we are terminal that we start treating time with the respect it deserves.”
We are still works in progress and learning every day to treat time with the respect it deserves and to be truly alive! We are all terminal, nobody lives forever, and we are learning to make the most with the days we are given, with the people we love and who love us back. Thank you, in advance for your prayers!
Just Breathe,
Paula